Stories

The crisis that remade planeswalking

Dominaria's accumulated wounds were pulling time, space and neighbouring planes apart. Closing them saved the Multiverse, but the repair demanded sparks, lives and a permanent rewriting of what a planeswalker could be.

Ravnica · Nicol Bolas · The Gatewatch

Nicol Bolas turned Ravnica into a locked arena, lured planeswalkers into it and began harvesting their sparks. His design failed when a divided city and an equally divided cast of heroes found enough common purpose to fight back.

New Phyrexia · A war on every world

Elesh Norn used Realmbreaker to invade the Multiverse at once. The defence succeeded only by turning the invasion tree into a road for Zhalfir, cutting New Phyrexia away and accepting changes that ended the old order of planar travel.

Two brothers turned discovery into dominion—and taught Phyrexia how to enter Dominaria.

A feud between Urza and Mishra turns recovered Thran power into a continent-spanning arms race. The Sylex ends their war at Argoth, ignites Urza’s spark and begins Dominaria’s long struggle against Phyrexia.

Urza prepared a perfect weapon. Dominaria survived because imperfect people chose one another.

Yawgmoth turns Rath into the bridgehead for Phyrexia’s invasion of Dominaria. The Weatherlight crew and the Coalition complete Urza’s scattered Legacy, destroy Yawgmoth and leave Karn carrying both victory and a newly awakened spark.

A dying plane forced four planeswalkers to turn shared mistakes into a lasting oath.

Ulamog and Kozilek break free on Zendikar. Gideon, Jace, Nissa and Chandra answer by forming the Gatewatch, then risk the plane itself to draw both Eldrazi titans fully into reality and destroy them.

A mystery beneath the silver moon became Nahiri’s revenge—and Emrakul’s chosen prison.

Jace and Tamiyo trace Innistrad’s spreading madness to Nahiri’s revenge: Emrakul is coming. After Avacyn falls, the defenders bind the Eldrazi titan inside the moon—on terms Emrakul appears to choose herself.

The Gatewatch went looking for Bolas’s weakness and discovered a world engineered as his weapon.

The Gatewatch attacks Nicol Bolas on Amonkhet and discovers that Naktamun’s trials manufacture his Eternal army. Bolas destroys the city’s promised order, defeats the planeswalkers individually and exposes how fragile their alliance remains.

Without his memory, Jace found a truer self—and a friendship Bolas intended to weaponise.

Trapped on Ixalan without his memories, Jace joins Vraska’s pirate crew in the race for Orazca. Their unexpected trust survives his recovered past and becomes the secret with which they intend to undermine Nicol Bolas.

Sarkhan went home to find dragons, crossed twelve centuries and returned to a present that had never made him.

Sarkhan travels twelve centuries into Tarkir’s past and saves Ugin from Nicol Bolas. Dragons survive, the khans fall and a rewritten present gives Sarkhan everything he wanted—except a history in which he was born.

A festival of invention became a confiscation machine, and a family reunion grew into a fight over who owns the future.

Chandra returns to Kaladesh, reunites with Pia and joins a makers’ revolt against Tezzeret’s Consulate. Ghirapur wins its freedom, but Tezzeret escapes with Rashmi’s transporter transformed into Nicol Bolas’s Planar Bridge.

A ninja’s ten-year search brought the missing emperor home—and uncovered Phyrexia’s first transformed planeswalker.

Kaito’s search for Kamigawa’s missing emperor exposes Tezzeret and Jin-Gitaxias experimenting on kami. The Wanderer returns but cannot remain, while Tamiyo’s capture proves Phyrexia can compleat a planeswalker without extinguishing her spark.

A plane that remembered one Phyrexian war discovered that memory alone could not identify the next one.

Sheoldred’s sleeper agents turn Dominaria’s history and alliances against it. A new Coalition wins the visible battle, but compleated Ajani kills Jaya, destroys the Sylex and delivers Karn to New Phyrexia.

Ten planeswalkers carried one weapon into a world designed to make every strength serve the enemy.

A strike team enters New Phyrexia to destroy Realmbreaker before it reaches other planes. Infection shatters the mission, and Elspeth takes the Sylex away rather than let its blast destroy the connected Multiverse.

The invasion ended, but victory changed who could cross the Multiverse and how the planes touched.

New Phyrexia’s defeat leaves survivors confronting compleation, lost sparks and damaged homes. As Omenpaths begin carrying ordinary people between worlds, the Multiverse enters an age no longer organised exclusively around planeswalkers.

A wounded fairy-tale realm must choose between patient repair, intoxicating power and the courage of an untested hero.

Kellan hunts three witches for the truth about his father while Will and Rowan divide over Eldraine’s recovery. Breaking the Wicked Slumber saves the Realm, separates the twins and sends Kellan through an Omenpath.

Rival expeditions descend toward Ixalan’s hidden sun and uncover a history large enough to destabilise every power on the surface.

Competing expeditions discover Ixalan’s inner world, the Oltec and the Inner Sun Chimil. Defeating Vito and Aclazotz restores the light, but opens a new struggle over ancestry, contact and who may claim the past.

A murder investigation forces Ravnica to examine how invasion grief has taken root inside its restored institutions.

Teysa Karlov’s murder points too neatly to Etrata. Proft and Kaya uncover Oba’s revenge campaign, solving the killings while exposing how Phyrexian grief still moves beneath Ravnica’s restored institutions.

Oko assembles an impossible crew for a vault robbery, while Kellan learns that finding his father is not the same as knowing him.

Oko assembles an interplanar crew to rob Akul and open a Fomori vault. The prize is Loot, a child carrying a map of the Multiverse, while Kellan finally rejects the father he crossed worlds to find.

A mouse mother leaves the safety of Goodhill to return a stolen egg and proves that care can be a form of world-saving strength.

Mabel and Helga cross Valley to return a stolen Calamity Beast egg before King Glarb can control it. Ral joins their quest while looking for Jace Beleren, then encounters a dragon-hawk he intends to warn others about.

A rescue team enters a plane-sized House where fear feeds the architecture and every promise of escape belongs to Valgavoth.

Kaito, the Wanderer, Niko, Tyvar and Zimone enter Duskmourn to rescue Nashi. They escape Valgavoth’s living House, but its doors remain open to other worlds and Nashi must finally release Tamiyo’s echo.

Ten teams chase one manufactured spark across three worlds, until stopping for other people becomes the only victory that matters.

Chandra enters the interplanar Ghirapur Grand Prix to win the Aetherspark for Nissa. Across Amonkhet, Muraganda and a coup in Ghirapur, the race proves that freedom cannot be bought with someone else’s life.

A world freed from dragonlords faces a storm it cannot command

Tarkir’s liberated clans face dragonstorms spreading beyond the plane. Narset seeks Ugin, Sarkhan raises an army and Jace tries to rewrite reality—until Ugin returns and Nicol Bolas escapes the Meditation Realm.

A desperate crew carries a history-editing stone across a star system built over an ancient war

Sami and Tannuk recover an Endstone that rewrites the past, drawing rival faiths and Tezzeret toward Sothera’s only exit. Their escape through the Weft delivers the artifact to a power waiting beyond the Wurmwall.

Five lives expose the older dangers behind Sothera's bright frontiers

Five journeys expose Sothera’s deeper wounds: a soldier’s guilt, a life chosen on Evendo, Kavaron’s fatal hunger, the horror inside Uthros and an Eldrazi device cutting backward through time.

Jace builds a painless second Multiverse and discovers why no mind can improve existence by cutting away its contradictions

Jace divides himself to impose the painless Echoverse on reality. Tam, Vraska and his discarded selves stop the overwrite, but victory costs Jace his life and leaves Tam carrying his spark and unfinished purpose.

Five friends follow a wounded archaic beneath Titan’s Grave and discover that the future of Arcavios has already become someone else’s experiment

A missing oracle draws five students beneath Titan’s Grave. They steady a future-warping archaic, but Tam’s betrayal carries Jadzi into the manufactured reality waiting beyond Arcavios.

Seven lives beyond the central expedition show a university learning how to teach, grieve and share knowledge after the Multiverse opened its doors

Across Arcavios and its Omenpaths, students confront stolen knowledge, impossible expectations, unresolved grief and damaged institutions. Their smaller choices reveal how Strixhaven is rebuilding after invasion.

Four Strixhaven students wake the night and force a divided world to decide whether balance means sameness or coexistence

An accidental Omenpath strands four students on Lorwyn-Shadowmoor. Their search for home wakes Isilu, exposes an elven coup and gives Maralen one chance to rule without Oona's shadow.

Three smaller journeys show how grief, devotion and appetite survive wherever Lorwyn's sunlight meets Shadowmoor's night

A disastrous boggart heist, a treefolk resurrection and an exchange of impossible letters reveal the intimate cost of living between Lorwyn and Shadowmoor.

Two royal siblings enter Arcavios's greatest university just as the Oriq turn its oldest wound into a weapon

Rowan and Will arrive at Strixhaven with their shared magic faltering. An Oriq assault forces the estranged twins to combine hard-won lessons against the Blood Avatar.

Five students discover that the most lasting education begins where college expectations stop providing safe answers

Rootha, Dina, Quintorius, Zimone and Killian confront inherited expectations, dangerous knowledge and Oriq manipulation in five intimate stories from across Strixhaven's colleges.

A monster hunt across the World Tree exposes Tibalt's manufactured apocalypse and the first move in a Phyrexian invasion

Kaya follows an impossible predator across Kaldheim and uncovers Tibalt's engineered Doomskar. The realms survive, but Vorinclex escapes with the prize Phyrexia came to steal.

Five lives test whether glory is a destination, a performance or the courage to choose a different path

Niko, Arni, Ranar and Lathril confront destinies that promise to define them. Their choices reveal what Kaldheim's sagas omit when they celebrate only victory.

A rebuilt Weatherlight gathers a new crew while Liliana's oldest debt draws the Gatewatch toward Belzenlok and a victory owned by Nicol Bolas

Jhoira rebuilds the Weatherlight as Liliana hunts her final demon. Their paths unite old heroes and new crew, but victory transfers her last debt to Nicol Bolas.

Survivors rebuild beneath a cooling sky while Teferi searches their memories for the human key hidden inside the Sylex

Kayla, Tawnos and forgotten soldiers live beyond Argoth while Teferi walks their past to learn why copying the Sylex cannot copy its cost.

At Urza's abandoned tower, a damaged coalition prepares to invade New Phyrexia while its enemies close around the Temporal Anchor

Saheeli, Kaya and Teferi turn Urza's tower into a final workshop. Their Sylex plan survives a Phyrexian assault, but Teferi does not return with it.

A failing day-night cycle forces Arlinn Kord to defend both halves of herself while wolves, witches and vampires compete to define Innistrad's future

As Innistrad's nights grow unnaturally long, Arlinn Kord gathers witches and Planeswalkers around the Celestus. Tovolar turns the crisis into a werewolf uprising, while Olivia Voldaren waits to steal the cure.

Olivia Voldaren turns an eternal night into a wedding campaign for absolute power, forcing Innistrad's divided defenders into one violent alliance

Olivia Voldaren uses the stolen Moonsilver Key to charm Edgar Markov and unite Innistrad's vampire houses. Arlinn's alliance crashes the wedding, frees Katilda and restores the sun.

Elspeth searches for a lost home in a city where five families ration angelic power, while Giada and Urabrask turn hidden histories into competing promises of freedom

Elspeth Tirel enters New Capenna seeking the world of her childhood and a weapon against Phyrexia. She finds five crime families fighting over Halo, Giada trapped as its living source and Ob Nixilis converting the city's fear into an empire.

A contested cure, a broken expedition and a living world that refuses to become a monument

Nahiri seeks to restore an ancient Zendikar with the Lithoform Core. Nissa defends the world that survived, Jace searches for a compromise and two adventurers discover how costly someone else's idea of salvation can be.

Two dragon brothers, two human sisters and a history that changes with the voice telling it

A vision draws Yasova and her granddaughters toward Ugin's hidden refuge. The dragon brothers' past unfolds through memories and competing accounts, while Bolas turns a family's doubts into weapons against the people keeping his rival safe.

A stolen bow, a captive menagerie and the living legacy of a world Bolas destroyed

In Luneau, Vivien discovers a vampire court that calls captivity preservation. When its ruler steals the Arkbow and tries to claim Skalla's surviving spirits, she turns the city's overlooked wildlife into a force it cannot contain.

When the guardian becomes a threat, protection has to mean more than obedience

Innistrad's protectors turn on their people while Jace follows a trail of ruined stone and unreliable memories. Villagers, cathars and Arlinn reveal the human cost of a crisis that ends with Avacyn's unmaking, not the world's rescue.

One invasion, different worlds and victories that do not erase their cost

Students, soldiers, artists and unlikely allies resist Phyrexia on their own worlds. These parallel fronts show how local knowledge buys survival, while the people directing the defence must answer for what their victories cost.

The promise of unity meets people who will not surrender the meaning of themselves

A chosen bond, a tyrant's nightmare and encounters with compleation reveal different meanings of belonging. From Neyali's resistance to Teferi's lost homeland, these stories challenge the claim that unity must mean surrendering a self.

The city is larger than its leaders, and its promises look different from below

Behind guild emblems are families, apprentices, prisoners and workers trying to live with the city's bargains. Their stories reveal how protection becomes control, ambition becomes cruelty, and loyalty sometimes survives by challenging the institution that demands it.

A lost mind, an unexpected captain and a poet who will not surrender her own account

Jace learns to live without his past, Vraska finds recognition beyond assassination, and Huatli discovers a wider calling. Their separate journeys through Ixalan ask who gets to define a person once the familiar story no longer holds.

In the world later called Avishkar, invention and resistance begin with people who cannot simply leave

Chandra's homecoming, Pia's resistance, Rashmi's work and Yahenni's limited time give the Kaladesh revolt its personal stakes. Creativity offers ways to challenge the Consulate, but care and restraint matter as much as spectacular power.

A WORLD THAT FIGHTS BACK

Zendikar's survivors build an unlikely alliance while Nissa searches for the world's missing soul and Jace investigates the ancient prison that failed them.

VICTORY IS NOT THE SAME AS SAFETY

Sea Gate's defenders trap Ulamog, but Ob Nixilis turns their victory into catastrophe. Chandra returns as cooperation becomes the difference between survival and surrender.

WHAT THE PROMISE COST

Naktamun's promised afterlife conceals a system built for Bolas. Follow its discovery through the Gatewatch, Samut, the gods and the people caught in the Hours.

THE INVASION INSIDE FAMILIAR PLACES

Phyrexian infiltration reaches a family estate, a school, a goblin kingdom and the Weatherlight. Other defenders must also decide whom their supposed safety excludes.

WHO CONTROLS THE BOND

Kaito's search, Chishiro's broken bond, Kotori's discovery and a divided family reveal how Kamigawa's people negotiate loyalty between institutions, technology and the kami.

WHAT A PROMISE CAN CONCEAL

An assassination scheme, a destroyed Selesnyan refuge, a kraul uprising and a sabotaged surveillance project expose the distance between Ravnica's public promises and private purposes.

DEFENDERS, ENEMIES AND NECESSARY ALLIES

While Emrakul approaches Thraben, Nahiri traps Sorin, Thalia and Sigarda confront corrupted angels, and the Gatewatch learns that Zendikar's plan cannot simply be repeated.

PALIANO'S PROMISE OF ORDER

Brago's long rule, Marchesa's ascent and Adriana's resistance show how Paliano turns promises of order into leverage, while Kaya tests whom a paid service should protect.

WHAT HEROISM LEAVES BEHIND

Gods and heroes dominate Theros's legends, but ordinary lives expose their limits. Follow choices about family, prophecy, public duty and the stories a city remembers.

WHO ANSWERS A WOUNDED WORLD

Before a shared last stand, Zendikar's defenders and enemies follow separate paths. Nissa learns to listen, Gideon reaches exhaustion and Ob Nixilis searches for escape.

BEYOND A GOD'S REACH

Kiora's search for help on Zendikar collides with Thassa's authority. Beyond that conflict, Kruphix discovers how little the gods can promise about threats from other worlds.

THE HISTORY SARKHAN REMEMBERS

Before history changes, Tarkir's clans argue over strength, family and justice. Meet the lives behind their banners and the ambitions that make leadership dangerous.

A RESCUE THAT CHANGES THE BALANCE

Sarkhan's journey reaches an ancient Tarkir where dragons still live. Saving Ugin opens a different future, but forces the khans to confront losses they cannot undo.

THE HISTORY THAT SURVIVED

In Tarkir's rewritten history, strength and learning serve dragonlords. Narset, Sorin and local survivors expose what that order conceals, while a later rebellion recovers forbidden kinship.

WHO GUARDS THE GUARDIANS

Avacyn's protectors confront Garruk's curse, the cost of their own certainty and a buried account of the angel's creation. Protection does not make every hunter right.

SAVING A LIFE IS NOT SAVING A WORLD

Wrenn makes room for a new companion, Leinore fights for her sister and Torens uncovers a town's bargain. Their local victories leave consequential dangers unresolved.

THREE ERAS, NOT ONE CONTINUOUS PRESENT

Narset questions war, Sidisi punishes dissent and Sorin finds a lost ally's grave. Separate glimpses of ancient and dragon-ruled Tarkir keep the changing history legible.

A REQUEST IS NOT A COMMAND

A goblin's profitable theft precedes three planeswalkers' competing promises. Jace answers Zendikar, Liliana pursues freedom and Chandra chooses the community that first sheltered her.

THE WORLD DOES NOT EXIST TO OBEY

Liliana cannot discard the Chain Veil, a dragon misjudges Talrand and treasure hunters meet a sliver hive. Shandalar repeatedly frustrates those who mistake power for control.

INDEPENDENT STORIES, SHARED QUESTIONS

Meren's vengeance, Kaalia's failed rescue and three stranger encounters ask what power really preserves. These independent stories share consequences, not one invented journey across the Multiverse.

WHO GETS TO CALL IT JUSTICE

Muzzio engineers authority, Daretti confronts a stolen career and Kaya refuses a murderer's commission. Three separate accounts expose the gap between a grievance and its answer.

WHAT MAKES SOMEONE RETURN

The Weatherlight draws Gerrard back through a kidnapping and uneasy bargains. In a separate voyage, Kellan Boldt learns that escaping disaster can mean leaving a planned future behind.

MORE THAN THE NAME A WORLD GIVES YOU

Perisophia questions identity, two lovers meet a tragic ending and Ajani separates a person from her legend. Divine power shapes Theros without answering every mortal question.

PORTRAITS ARE NOT ONE CAMPAIGN

Explore the lives behind legendary cards, from Commander biographies and Teferi's family to the Echoverse's altered histories. These portraits add context without inventing a shared campaign.

UNSTABLE — A HUMOROUS SIDE ROUTE

Visit Unstable's mad-science society through its inventions, a classroom's government reports and jokes about familiar legends. This supplemental route stays outside Lorewalkers' canonical timeline.

WHEN DIVINITY CLAIMS THE WHOLE STORY

Xenagos makes himself a god, Elspeth finds the limit of that triumph, and Calix discovers that enforcing destiny can carry him beyond the world that made him.

THREE RESPONSES TO A CITY UNDER SIEGE

Teyo protects people before he trusts himself, Domri mistakes conquest for opportunity, and Dovin leaves a government whose authority no longer shelters him.

WHAT REMAINS AFTER THE MAKER IS GONE

Dakkon's bargain, Serra's lost refuge, Venser's gift and Windgrace's guardianship leave power in other hands. Survival does not make the inheritance innocent, complete or reversible.

Fiora · Theros · Ravnica

A reckless loss opens the Multiverse to Dack; a stolen gauntlet carries him into another danger. His final escape fails on Ravnica, and a counterpart's later appearance does not reverse that ending.

Companionship · Mentorship · A public search

Yanggu finds continuity in a companion, Kasmina watches the choices of students and Yanling makes a private search public. These are separate journeys whose unanswered questions should not be filled with convenient victories.

A shield · A memory · A rebellion · A seed

A shield can fail, rebellion can meet punishment and a life can leave something that is not a restored body. These four episodes follow the consequences that spectacular power cannot simply erase.

THREE INDEPENDENT HISTORIES

Follow three different answers to a world's needs: Breya's experiment, Thrasios's loyalty and Avacyn's return. Success, belief and lasting safety are not interchangeable.

READ THE PERSON, NOT ONLY THE PORTRAIT

Explore seven individual legacies through belief, magical bargains and contested control. These portraits connect themes without inventing a shared campaign or a single historical moment.

PEOPLE, NOT REPLACEABLE PARTS

Follow individual choices behind a promise of unity, from a gatekeeper's survival to the lives a resistance leader cannot spend.

A HOME IS MORE THAN ITS RULER

Follow the people who keep a damaged world alive, the defender remade against it and the authority that mistakes control for unity.

WHAT SURVIVES A CHANGED WORLD

Follow different lives through Mirrodin's conquest and the remaking of its familiar landscape, where survival continues beneath Phyrexia's imposed order.

WHO BENEFITS FROM THE VIOLENCE

Follow competing forms of Phyrexian power, where hired killing, coerced service and a rebellion's new general expose the price paid by other lives.

WHEN A WORLD DEVELOPS WILLS

Meet independent beings born as Phyrexia remakes its terrain, whose distinct desires cannot be reduced to the orders of praetors.

WHAT BECOMES OF A REMADE WORLD

Explore the broken surface and inner spheres of New Phyrexia, where rebuilding a world does not erase every older design.